Originally posted by carver9
Gladiator was pretty much toying with Nova and Nova himself knew he didn't stand a chance. Nova didn't do any damage until he turned Gladiator powers back on him whereas Nova bull rushing Glads did more damage to himself.
Kallark did cosmetic damage to Rider. In the beginning of the fight Richie doubted himself sure. But once he had taken Glads measure, he gained confidence and turned it around. Nova dragging him kicking and screaming into orbit was to get him into space away from innocents. It was Kallarks own miscalculated decision to unleash his heat vision. Nova was just saavy enough to capitalize on it. But stop acting as though Rider dragged him off thinking to himself "man, the only way I can beat him is if I use his heat vision against him". Rider is a lot of things, clairvoyant isn't one of them.